Wild in the Streets - Chris Webby, Jon Connor

Every human has a voice

Every human has a choice

We all was meant to share this planet

But it all starts with understanding

I wish it could all be so easy

Wake me up from the nightmare on the TV

All the pain, the anxiety and hurt

For the world to change, we have to change first

Every day, feel like I’m supressin' my feelings

Like I’ve been sentenced to pay a penance to people

Who for some reason hate my existence

They put us in ghettos and we embraced it

Makin' the most out of a fucked up situation

And you got the nerve to be racist?

It’s funny

Controlling my education, religion, and money

All we got is pride left and you focused on taking that from me

The picture gets clearer when you feelin' like you at your safest

It’s still racist when you ain’t in our faces and call us a nigga

It’s in the look, it’s in the tone

It’s when you say «All lives matter"as a way to justify police doing wrong

I know you hate it, but until black lives matter?

Shit, «All lives matter"is a false statement

All I want between you and I is to peacefully unify

Look at the truth from my point of view

And then you decide: who are you inside?

You mean you like seeing humans shootin' and lootin' awry for dudes who got

brutalized?

We all done caught a bad one

Lookin' around at all this chaos, Colin Kaepernick

Takin' that knee don’t seem that bad, huh?

And now there’s screaming in the streets

No, don’t give me no brick to throw 'cause what we out here screaming for is

peace

I wasn’t even a teen when I seen what happened to Rodney King

My niece, Navaya, just turned eleven and now she seeing the same thing

We just tryin' to break the cycle by addressing what we seeing

And me and Webby just an example that we all on the same team

Oh, I heard a shot and laid down

It’s gettin' wild in the streets

They settin' fire to the crown

His momma yellin' «Oh, no, no

Why they shot my son?

No!»

It’s gettin' wild in the streets

When the sun goes down

Yeah

War on the streets and nowhere to run to

They arming police, military come too

All we wanted was peace, but what we gon' do

Watchin' all these conspiracies come true?

And we got good cop, bad cop

White cop, black cop

Why call the cops when, this cop, that cop

Out here shootin' like it’s Call of Duty: Black Ops

Another dead man laying on the blacktop

Rioters sent by the left to stir

This whole pot 'cause the plot’s divide and conquer

The right responds with violence beyond redemption

Tension, no one rights the wrongs

And the end result is the corruption bubbling to the top

Ain’t a cop that can stop the rumbling

Bringing in SWAT won’t stop what’s coming

We’re past discussion, won’t stop for nothing

Unity’s louder than troops and gunpowder

The shroud institution has proved they’re cowards

They losin' their power, the future is ours

Change gon' come, revolution has flowered

And grown through the cracks of the concrete street

Through the false info that been on TV

This America so the pain run deep

But we can never not be free

Fuck a racist motherfucker, you can go and tell 'em how I feel

So go and play your anthem, I’ma go ahead and kneel

On the ground that the colonists had gotten for a steal

Get it?

'Cause they stole it, shit, I’m just being real

We’re a country built off crime and white lies

And I can see it through my white eyes

If you don’t see the problem, you the problem

And they all exposed

When our true colors get shown, woah

Oh, I heard a shot and laid down

It’s gettin' wild in the streets

They settin' fire to the crown

His momma yellin' «Oh, no, no

Why they shot my son?

No!»

It’s gettin' wild in the streets

When the sun goes down